Notation and terminology - larsbrinkhoff/its-manual GitHub Wiki

User input looks like this.
Program output, file names, etc looks like this.
Octal is often the default number base.
Altmode means ASCII ESC, octal code 33. On screen it's printed as $ or ◊.
Control characters are printed like ^X or ↑X.
On old terminals, ^ and _ look like ↑ and ←. This is due to the 1963 version of ASCII.
On a Knight TV keyboard, there is a CALL key which is used throughout in place of ^Z. On the emulator F1 is used for CALL.
Job is a running program.